Posted on 02/20/2017 3:40:54 PM PST by cba123
BEIJING — Fear of mortality is one reason Americans spend so much on “antioxidant” products, including Vitamin C supplements and beta-carotene, which promise a longer healthier life. According to the National Institutes of Health, more than half of adults in the U.S. consume some kind of antioxidant product, spending $37 billion each year.
But a study conducted in China – where aging is akin to a national obsession these days – claims that antioxidants don’t work as billed. The study is published in the journal Redox Biology.
A new study finds that antioxidant supplements may be more harmful to the human body than believed.
Rather than extending longevity, researchers say they trigger a stress reaction which causes the body to age more rapidly.
In other words, those expensive life-enhancers may actually be killing you.
(Excerpt) Read more at studyfinds.org ...
But it seems interesting.
Just thought I would post it here, for comments.
Anti-oxidants, may be harmful?
What does this mean? You mean I’m still going to die after spending all that money?? Now I’m really really upset.
Erm....
Another study seemed to indicate that saliva causes throat cancer. But only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.
CC
One minute the Chinese are antioccident, the next they are antiantioxidant
This is BS! Linus Pauling and Mathias Rath has and is doing extensive work on Vitamin C and various antioxidants. To give you a little perspective....beta carotene is a major player in preventing various skin cancers and night blindness. Vitamin C must be taken at 3000 mg daily to produce glutathione. The body master vitaminlike hormone. The human body used to have the gene that sinthesized its own vitamin C
By the way free radicals are killing people by damaging tissues and cells. So using anti-oxidants to attack free radicals is worse? I find this claim highly dubious. what credible scientists peer reviewed this study?
Propaganda from the Drug Industry.
But their Ritalin, Gardasil and prozac are “good” for you.
Or are they good for the drug industry’s bank accounts?
MILO is NOT in trouble if this tape has been spliced and doctored to achieve the outcome the left wanted!!! WHY in the HELL has this JUST NOW come forward after a year and a half???
Perhaps a balance between the two for optimal health per fatalistic DNA?
Post previous response on wrong thread SORRY!!!
Is he an antioxidant?
Oops. Should have kept reading down the thread.......
Supplements are 98% chemical garbage.
There is much basis in fact to the headline, without regard to the details of this study.
This is a thread about anti-oxidants. Just sayin’
It was great though. Thanks. I laughed and loved it.
LOL, LOL, posted reply on wrong thread SORRY!!!
Chinese vitamins probably are bad for you.
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